PHP versions 7.4.33, 8.0.27 and 8.1.14

The PHP developers recently released versions 7.4.33, 8.0.27 and 8.1.14 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 series on our servers as a result.

Customers should not notice any changes, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.

New Year’s 2023 Holiday Hours

Our business offices will be closed on Monday, January 2 to observe the US legal holiday. As always, our support staff will be providing same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until the next day, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Christmas 2022 Holiday Hours

Our business offices will be closed on Monday, December 26 to observe the US legal holiday.

As always, our support staff will be providing same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until the next day, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Thanksgiving 2022 Holiday Hours

Our business offices will be closed on Thursday, November 24 to observe the US legal holiday for Thanksgiving.

As always, we’ll provide same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until Friday, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Domain name discounts through December 31

We’re offering big discounts on the first year of some “new TLD” domain names like .finance, .fyi, .photos, .pro, .travel and 150 others. For example, a .pro domain name that normally costs $22.92 is now just $4.99 for the first year.

You can browse the price list to see all the deals.

The offer applies to the first year of newly registered domain names with annual prepayment, and expires December 31.

DNS performance improvements in Europe and Asia

We’ve recently added new authoritative DNS nameserver “instances” in Europe and Asia, which will improve the performance of sites we hosts for website visitors in those regions. For a site visitor in India or Australia, for example, the first page of a website we host should now load around 100 ms (a tenth of a second) faster.

Our customers don’t need to make any changes to get the speed improvement — this is all handled behind the scenes.

PHP versions 7.4.32, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11

The PHP developers recently released versions 7.4.32, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 series on our servers as a result.

Customers should not notice any changes, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.

New status page

We’ve traditionally used our blog for notifications about our system status, but we’ve now added a more modern status page, at www.tigertechstatus.net. It shows any problems, outages, or planned maintenance.

We recommend that you bookmark the page in your web browser so you can check it even if you can’t reach our main site for some reason. (It’s hosted by a third party, so it will be available even if there’s a problem with our services.) You can use the Get Updates button in the top of that page to subscribe to status updates by email, Slack, Microsoft Teams or RSS feeds.

New web-based file manager

We recently added a new web-based file manager interface for our hosting customers. It’s a great alternative to FTP if you need to transfer files.

In addition to the features you’d expect, like uploading, downloading, unzipping, and so on, you can use it to browse individual files in backups we’ve made for your account. (Unlike many other hosting companies nowadays, backups are still always included free with all our hosting plans!)

PHP versions 8.0.23 and 8.1.10

The PHP developers recently released versions 8.0.23 and 8.1.10 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 series on our servers as a result.

Customers should not notice any changes, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.